Tours

• The circulation of the blood · 6 plates
  From Galen's arteries to Malpighi's capillaries, the long argument about where blood goes. It moves through Rome, Cairo, Padua and London, and it is full of half-right answers.
• The brain and nerves · 6 plates
  How the head became the seat of thought, how nerves were told apart from everything else, and how the nervous system turned out to be made of separate cells.
• Seeing the invisible · 6 plates
  What changed when anatomists could see below the naked eye, and why seeing a structure is not the same as understanding it.
• Myths and "firsts" · 6 plates
  Six plates where the popular story is wrong, contested or more interesting than the legend. A tour for sceptics.
• Beyond Europe · 5 plates
  Egyptian, Indian, Chinese and Islamic-world contributions, told carefully, including one popular claim that does not survive scrutiny. Pair this tour with the Traditions lens.
• The hidden vessels · 2 plates
  The lymphatic system was found twice, in the gut in 1622 and around the brain in 1787 and again in 2015.